Wednesday, 13 July 2016

LONDON- Theresa May took over the reins as Britain's prime minister
and has immediately been tasked with the first assignment of taking
Britain through the Brexit crisis. The steely woman took over from
David Cameron on wednesday after the former Prime Minister became the
first government official to pay for the results of last month's UK
referendum.
Theresa May, a 59 year old is the second woman on the job after
conservative Margaret Thatcher who was nicknamed 'the Iron Lady'
during her tenure.
Before her appointment, a male consevative who served under
Margaret Thatcher and supports May had described her as a 'bloody
difficult woman'. The comment has since been bounced around and even
women and May herself have adopted it with a good mind. May said that
politics could do better with the aid of 'bloody difficult women'.
She has even gone ahead to boost the 'bloody difficult reputation'
by commenting that the next person who would be giving the same
testimony in no time soon would be the President of the European
Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker.
EARLY LIFE:
Theresa May was born as the only child of a church of England vicar
and has lived in the conservative part of South East England. She was
born in East Sussex and studied geography in Oxford University where
she met her future husband, Philip May. He political career began as a
local councilor in suburban london representing the conservative town
of Maidenhead in the House of Commons.
She became orhaned at the age 25, when her father died in a car
crash and her mom died from a long illness. She is diagonised with
diabetes(Type 1), and in an interview she had on her political bid
last week, she spoke a bit about having to inject herself with insulin
four times a day o keep going.
The tough and ever serious woman said: "It becomes a routine part
of your life — there are plenty of senior people in business with it,"
She got married to her husband Philip in 1980 after the met at an
association dance party for students in school. She met Philip through
Pakistan's future leader, Benazir Bhutto, who was a friend of Philip.
They have been married for 36 years now with no children.
The have been thoughts on what her relation with either
'President Trump' or 'President Clinton' would look like. But everyone
knows that she's is just the plain, dull and rigid type, not
interested in any kind of ' sisterhood' or 'friends in power' stuff.
And it would be a rare thing to see Trump make her laugh with his
antics.
May was on the losing side of the Brexit referendum, as she
backed a stay in EU. But she now faces the charge of pulling UK out.
She has however said that she would ignore calls for another
referendum, she insisted that 'a Brexit was a Brexit' and it was the
duty of her and her team to make it a success. She is yet to state
when she plans to activate Article 50, the two year withdrawal
mechanism from the EU bloc.
Congrats on your achievements May!

Laptops recovered from ISIS
jihadists are filled 'up to 80%'
with PORN, reveals former US
intelligence director
A former US intelligence director has revealed that laptops that
were seized from ISIS jihadists are filled up to 80% with porn films
and videos. He said that this is what hardens their hearts to carry
out their hideous activities against humanity.
Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, also said that one way the sect
could be handicapped effectively would be by bringing down their
communication channels. He also emphasised on more intelligence
gathering.
Flynn made the claims while being interviewed by German Newspaper
Bild, he's book on 'winning the war against Islam' is being reviewed.
Flynn, a potential running mate of US presidential candidate
Donald Trump said that along with Porn, were videos featuring
violations of women and children and several beheadings and shootings
all captured by a set of 'very sick extremists' on video.
'We looked a ruthless enemy in
the eye - women and children, girls and boys,
raped and exploited, the beheadings stored on
a laptop next to pornography'.
He wrote:
'At one point we actually had determined that
the material on the laptops was up to 80 per
cent pornography'.
Pornography in recent years has been exploding in the middle
east, especially child porn. Even though leaders of Islamic
communities may turn a blind eye to its reality, but it doesn't mean
it would escape the rather. Google recently released a search analysis
on search for sex related content, and the analysis for middle easter
nations was just so high. Especially in Pakistan. Where search for
child sex was higher than America's!
Lieutenant General Flynn says porn probably serves as a salve
to inure jihadists in their horrible acts. Hardening their hearts
against considering its effects. Much of the porn content also
concentrates on child and animalistic porn.

Popular Nollywood actor Emeka Ike has told a Lagos State
Customary Court that he has filed a petition to a Federal High Court,
restraining the lower court from hearing a divorce suit brought before
it by his wife.
Emma Ike who has been married to the actor for 16 years now, had
filed a divorce application to the customary court last year, on
grounds of her receiving incessant battering from her husband. Emeka
Ike had denied the charges in court, insisting that he still loved his
wife.
The case was slated for a ruling on tuesday in Lagos, but Emeka's
lawyer Mr. Abdul Labi-Lawal informed the court that Emeka Ike had
filed for a stay of proceedings on the case at a high court. Which
hitherto, prevented the court from hearing or ruling on the case.
The application(by Emeka Ike) was marked FCMP/20054/16 and had Emma
Ike and the customary court President Mr. Awos Awosola as its first
and second defendants.
Emeka Ike's application requested the High Court declaration that
the Lagos Island Customary Court lacked the adequate Jurisdiction to
"handle proceedings on the Ike's divorce suit". It also noted that the
marriage was conducted in Enugu State under Igbo customs and
traditions.
Also Emeka Ike applied for a perpetual injunction restraining the
customary cour president Mr. Awosola or any other person in the
capacity of entertaining hearing of the Ike's divorce suit. On this,
Emeka's lawyer urged the court to stop proceedings, till the case had
undergone complete review and rectification at the High Court in
Lagos.
But, Emma's lawyer opposed the application, terming it ''an
attempt at arresting judgement".
Mr Iheanyi Awa, Emma's lawyer urged the court to discontinue the stay
and deliver judgement on the case. Insisting that details of the
application had been seved to neither himself or his client.
He said: "It is an attempt to arrest the judgment of the
court, I am aware that the respondent wants to
arrest the judgment which is to be delivered
today. "The stay of proceedings has been
decided for a long time and court has ruled
that it has jurisdiction to entertain the matter".
"It is a ploy to frustrate my client, they just
want to delay the judgment till another day".

"The court should give its judgment and if they
are not satisfied, they can appeal," he added
But after listening to the argument from both sides. The court
ruled in favour of Emeka's application and granted a stay of
roceedings. The court said: "In view of the
submission of the respondent, the stay of
proceedings is hereby granted, and the matter
is hereby adjourned sine die.''
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A man has just committed suicide after losing his last savings
on a bet that France would win the 2016 Euro Final.
Fidel Nkitin, a 27 year old Russian took his life by jumping
into the railway path of an oncoming train. He didn't flinch, even
when the train blared its approach horn.
The Russian had hoped that a £3,200 gamble would help him solve
his debt problems, but was left utterly devastated when Portugal ran
away winners with a 1-0 scoreline.
His last message on the social media after France loss was "Thank
you and forgive". Fidel Nkitin is a mobile sales man from Izhvesk in
Russia. He got crushed by a train on the Ludzya-Izhvesk railway line.

The Nigerian Senate on tuesday made a statement threatening to
hold the Attorney General of the Federation Malami Abubakar in
contempt if he does not appear before their investigative committee to
defend his decision of prosecuting a case that was non of his
business.
The Senate also said that an internal unit, the Senate Committee
on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal matters is looking into the
details of the forgery case that involved their two leaders. The
president of the Senate and his Deputy.
Malami had failed to appear before the senate for two weeks
running, on the grounds that he was outside the country. But the
president liaison with the national assembly Isa Etang, has pleaded
with the senate to have patience and await the return of the AGF. He
said that Malami will appear before the senate the moment he returns
to the country.
Right now reports can not state clearly if Malami has returned or
not, but the Senate has given him 48 hours to appear before their
committee.
The Senate also summoned the Secretary to Federal Government to
appear before its committee, on the statements he made recently on the
implementation of the national budget and national conference report.
All these decisions were taken when the Senate resumed from their
short recess on tuesday.
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President Buhari has sacked the Managing Director of the Nigerian
Airport Authority Habib Abdullahi and has appointed Ms Hadiza
Bala-Usman as a replacement.
Hadiza Bala-Usman, will take over from Abdullahi after the former
Director was removed from the same post in April 2015 and then got
reappointed in April of the same year.
In a statement that was signed by the director of press, Nigerian
Ministry of Aviation, Yetunde Sonaike, it was disclosed that others
appointed into several positions include Mohammed Bello-Koko as
Executive Director, Finance; Dr. Sekonte Davies as Executive Director,
Marine Operations and Prof. Idris Abubakar as Executive Director,
Engineering.
Hadiza Bala-Usman, born Jan 2, 1976 in Zaria, Kaduna has a B.Sc
in Business Administration from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria.
She also has a post graduate degree from Leeds University in UK.
She worked at the Bureau of Public Enterprises(BPE) from 2000-2004
as an enterprise officer. In 2004, she got hired by United Nations
Development Programme(UNDP) to work with the Federal Capital Territory
Administration. She worked as a special assistant to the Minister on
Project Implementation.
Between 2011 and 2015, Hadiza the new NPA boss, worked with the
Good Governance Group as the director of strategy. The Good Governance
Group is an NGO founded by Kaduna State Governor, El-Rufai and his
friends. Prior to her appointment as the new Nigerian Airport
Authority boss, she was working as the Chief of Staff for El-Rufai.
She assumed the position in 2015.
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Monday, 11 July 2016

JAMB SAYS ADMISSION WILL BE BASED ON MERIT, CATCHMENT AND EDS.
On sunday, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB
released the guidelines the 2016 admission procedure for tertiary
institutions in Nigeria. The guidelines were duely stated in a
document that was signed by the head of public information Dr. Fabian
Benjamin.
The document stated that admission will be conducted based on
three already existing thumb rules, Merit, Catchments and
EDS(Education Disadvantaged States). No point system(s)
The statement read: "... "Sequel to the recent
workshop convened by the Honourable
Minister of Education on the modality for the
2016 admission into tertiary institutions in
Nigeria following the cancellation of Post
UTME..." It went further...
"The federal government approved the re
enforcement of admission guideline
recognise by law. This is not the point system
widely circulated in some media. For the
avoidance of doubt, the Board wishes to
state clearly that the point system is an
illustration by the Registrar of JAMB of a few
institutions that were using the point system
to select candidates while their colleagues
were subjecting candidates to written test.
"These examples are contain in a paper
presented by the Registrar which is placed
on our website and was adopted by the
media wrongly as the 2016 guideline".
"Please note that the 2016
admissions will be conducted purely on the
three existing admission pillars of merit,
catchment area and educational less
developed states through the following
process".
Then I think they came out clear here:
"First, presentation of the list of candidates
who qualify for screening into individual
institution based on the three stipulated
criteria mentioned above. This screening
should not demand for another test in any
form either written, oral or electronic.
"Candidates are to present their Senior
School Certificate Examination ( SSCE)
results/Advanced Level (AL) results for
verification and clearing purposes. WAEC,
NECO and NBTE results or equivalent are
acceptable as matriculation requirements.
Qualifications for screening:

"Each candidate is expected to have a
minimum of five (5) credits at SSCE
including English, mathematics and any
other three (3) relevant subjects to his or her
discipline
"The list of qualified candidates awaiting
SSCE/AL results can be kept in view (K.I.V)
pending the release of their results. Any
candidate who does not posses the
requirements as listed above is deemed to
have failed the screening".
Please note this too:
"Consideration of the
recommended list as forward by JAMB should
be completed within one Month from the
date of receipt of the list. Any institution that
has a shortfall in the admitted candidates
can make-up for candidates from other
departments on the institutions list".
Also:
"Reasons for rejection of candidates on the
list should be clearly stated with proofs
provided alongside".
Now for the avoidance of doubt, JAMB has emphasised that the 'point
system' which popped up on their site last week was only an
illustration by the JAMB registrar. It is not an established procedure
as was widely circulated on the media. It was meant to projecting a
system some institutions were selecting their candidates rather than
subject them to written tests.
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